Adjuvant radiation therapy following mastectomy for breast cancer

Breast Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 190-195

  Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a   Mitsumori, Michihide ^a   Shibuya, Keiko ^a  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Breast cancer; Mastectomy; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036363065     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967588     Document Type: Review

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